Curt Schilling Responds to Vulgar Tweets

[turtleback]

So you can't congratulate your daughter in a semi-public way? That invites the crazies?

C'mon, Rich, I see your point… but I think you're too far to the one side of the middle here. This isn't airing something terribly private publicly… it's saying "congrats to my daughter for her achievement." Articles about it might be written in an online newspaper or something, too, and that's public as well.

You are talking about the way things should be.  I am talking about the way things actually are.

[iacas]

You are talking about the way things should be.  I am talking about the way things actually are.

You're going way too far. Those who would give up basic stuff like Twitter just to avoid an occasional ******* deserve neither liberty nor safety. Someone famous said that. :-)

[RFKFREAK]

Smart people practice defensive life.

I disagree with this. Maybe a risk averse person practices defensive life. However, living a defensive life isn't a prerequisite to being a smart person, IMO.

[Abu3baid]

I disagree with this. Maybe a risk averse person practices defensive life. However, living a defensive life isn't a prerequisite to being a smart person, IMO.

I agree.. It's too much of a generalization IMO.. For certain things like driving then yes I think defensive drivers are less likely to put them selves in harms way.. Certainly being smart is independent of the risk taking level in most cases.

[dave s]

If you put it out there, you're opening up yourself (and your family in this instance) to 'anything can happen.'

It sucks.  It's reality. Once it's out there, anything (unfortunately) goes anymore.

Again, a few years ago Curt didn't have a Twitter account to post this to a global audience. If Twitter wasn't used, this incident didn't happen.

dave

[dave s]

You are talking about the way things should be.  I am talking about the way things actually are.

Bingo.  We have a winner.

[JonMA1]

You are talking about the way things should be.  I am talking about the way things actually are.

I see both sides of the issue but I agree with this.

The reality is that the world is full of horrible people who do things that make what these ass-clowns did look pretty harmless. We should be able to go through life not bothering anyone else and hope that nobody ever does anything bad to us. But that isn't the reality and it never will be. There are plenty of places in this world where none of us would survive a stroll down the street. It's not right but it is reality. Not to say you can't fight it or that you have to accept it as being ok, but the human race isn't always good.

For some reason, sports fans seem to include some pretty irrational people. You have death threats going out to players, umpires and even a fan who catches a foul ball. Not to mention violence at events - soccer riots, a SF Giants fan beaten for wearing the wrong hat, even little league games where parents go after the officials.

I'll sometimes "free fall" into reading the comments from a sports article and while most of the comments are pretty harmless, inevitably someone will post something vulgar and/or mean spirited. As other's have suggested, it's a spineless way to feel like bad-ass. If this site wasn't managed the way it is, you'd probably get some of it here as well.

If you put it out there, you're opening up yourself (and your family in this instance) to 'anything can happen.'

It sucks.  It's reality. Once it's out there, anything (unfortunately) goes anymore.

Again, a few years ago Curt didn't have a Twitter account to post this to a global audience. If Twitter wasn't used, this incident didn't happen.

dave

This forum is as close as I get to sharing personal information with people I don't really know. As far as Twitter or Facebook, I don't understand the attraction. For one thing, very little of what I think or have to say should be of much interest to others (as is evident with my thread-killing posts). The other thing is that I know a few people who are simply trolls - nothing malicious, they just get off on pissing other people off. I don't need that crap in my life. And the thing is, I'm not a celebrity. It's got to be a million times worse for them. They live a different life than the rest of us - and not always in a good way. People hate (literally hate) athletes just because they played for the wrong team or because they're so well-liked by other fans.

So as messed up as this incident is, it shouldn't really surprise anyone.

[Moxie Dawn]

You always assume some risk when making public comments, but there really is no room for blaming the victim in all this. Even if you think Schilling should have sent a private tweet, that still doesn't mean his daughter, who initiated nothing, was deserving of obscene commentary. The truth is, and this being a forum of gentlemen I know you may find it hard to believe, sometimes all it takes is there being a female in a thread for the obscenities to come out.